Some Background:
I make Box2D games using WCK, which is an alchemy port of Box2D with a Flash IDE friendly interface.
WCK is component heavy, and also has a SWC that you must include.
basically as soon as i setup a basic World and a Static and Dynamic body (a falling box and the ground) the compile time has gone from a few seconds (empty project, or even just art) to 20-40 seconds! as i add more and more body types (and components) it gradually becomes more and more tedious to compile, by the end of the project i feel like it takes a half hour minimum to debug something if i have to compile several times to trace some info about the bug to track it down.
About The Question
Today I was despritely looking for ways to prevent this from plaguing future projects.
I looked into trying to take all of WCK references (World, Bodies, etc) and compiling them when ever they change into a SWC. or RSL. (this would have been a mess, i really don’t want to do this.)
I eventually stumbled on the drastic effect that some publish settings have, and i narrowed it down to Warning Mode. as soon as i turn this OFF. my compile times pick right back up to acceptable ranges 5-10 seconds.
I did some digging on what this feature does, and i don’t think it is useful to me. and im surprised it’s left on by default in Flash CS5.
from what i understand, according to Adobe, the purpose of Warnings Mode is to help correct an as2 developer who is transitioning to as3.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flash/cs/using/WS3e7c64e37a1d85e1e229110db38dec34-7fa4a.html
“Warnings Mode reports extra warnings that are useful for discovering incompatibilities when updating ActionScript 2.0 code to ActionScript 3.0.”
another post about the topic
http://www.bytearray.org/?p=931
If it really is just to give me AS2 related errors like “onEnterFrame is not supported in as3” would they really leave it on by default in CS5? 3 generations past as2…
The Question
I do not make AS2 errors, i have been coding in AS3 only for years. If i turn Warning Mode off am I going to miss any important debug info?
I highly doubt you need to leave it on. You’re steeped sufficiently in AS3 that you’re not going to make old AS2 mistakes. I don’t see the value in it for you.